Abdul Nasser Madani

BANGALORE: Jailed Kerala-based PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani , admitted to a private hospital recently for treatment of diabetes, was shifted to a multi-speciality hospital here in the wee hours today after he complained of giddiness. Madani, arrested in connection with the 2008 serial bomb blasts here, was shifted from Soukhya Hospital to the Manipal Hospital at around 2 AM after he complained of tiredness and giddiness, Medical Advisory Board of Manipal Hospitals (MHS)

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP has strongly protested Kerala government's reported move to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court, favouring the bail plea of PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani , now in prison in Karnataka in connection with the 2008 Bangalore blasts case. In a statement here, BJP spokesman V V Rajesh said the state government was planning to give an undertaking to the Apex Court that it would present Madani in the Bangalore court for trial whenever...

KOCHI: BJP today came out against PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani , an accused in the 2008 Bangalore serial blast case, saying he had allegedly flouted the temporary bail conditions imposed by a Karnataka court while permitting him to attend his daughter's wedding at Kollam today. 'Madani had violated bail conditions by addressing party workers and had openly challenged the rule of law and judicial system during the address', BJP state President , V Muralidharan,...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP has strongly protested Kerala government's reported move to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court, favouring the bail plea of PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani , now in prison in Karnataka in connection with the 2008 Bangalore blasts case. In a statement here, BJP spokesman V V Rajesh said the state government was planning to give an undertaking to the Apex Court that it would present Madani in the Bangalore court for trial...

KOCHI: BJP today came out against PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani , an accused in the 2008 Bangalore serial blast case, saying he had allegedly flouted the temporary bail conditions imposed by a Karnataka court while permitting him to attend his daughter's wedding at Kollam today. 'Madani had violated bail conditions by addressing party workers and had openly challenged the rule of law and judicial system during the address', BJP state President , V Muralidharan,...

KOZHIKODE: Kerala-based People's Democratic Party today sought the state government's intervention in securing bail for its leader Abdul Nasser Madani , arrested in 2008 Bangalore serial bomb blast case and hospitalised now in view of his health condition. Madani, undergoing treatment at the multi-speciality Manipal Hospital in Bangalore, was suffering from various ailments and the medical bulletins of doctors said his health condition was in "a bad...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: On the eve of Wednesday's vote in which a Left rout had seemed imminent, the CPM-led coalition has begun to look less vulnerable with pundits predicting a photo finish. The Congress-led United Democratic Front , however, remains confident of gaining an absolute majority as the Left Democratic Front insists its return is inevitable. What helped the Left in the final push was the V S Achuthanandan factor and a Hindu consolidation in its favour , say...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: AS Peoples' Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani got ready to leave his cell in Coimbatore after a nine-year stint behind bars, two cheers were raised for him in Kerala, with the Left and Congress leaders hailing the acquittal. The ruling Left Democratic Front and the opposition United Democratic Front in the state, who seldom see eye to eye, were unanimous in raising a toast to the court verdict, and virtually...

KOZHIKODE: Kerala-based People's Democratic Party today sought the state government's intervention in securing bail for its leader Abdul Nasser Madani , arrested in 2008 Bangalore serial bomb blast case and hospitalised now in view of his health condition. Madani, undergoing treatment at the multi-speciality Manipal Hospital in Bangalore, was suffering from various ailments and the medical bulletins of doctors said his health condition was in "a bad...

NEW DELHI: As far as minority appeasement goes, this one takes the cake. The Kerala assembly on Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution seeking the release of incarcerated PDP leader and a prime accused in the Coimbatore terror blasts, Abdul Nasser Madani, on "humanitarian" grounds. Madani, a hardline Muslim leader from Kerala whose communally-charged speeches helped his party PDP make a base in Travancore belt of the state, is not only charged with harbouring the blasts...

NEW DELHI: In a major embarrassment for the CPM, the Kerala police on Friday named Islamist leader Abdul Nasser Madani's wife Sufiya Madani as an accused in the Kalamassery bus burning incident, allegedly choreographed by arrested south India commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Thadiyantavide Nazeer. The chargesheet said Sufiya Madani was part of the conspiracy behind burning of the Tamil Nadu state bus at Kalamassery, off Kochi on September 9, 2005. According to the...

BANGALORE: Jailed Kerala-based PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani , admitted to a private hospital recently for treatment of diabetes, was shifted to a multi-speciality hospital here in the wee hours today after he complained of giddiness. Madani, arrested in connection with the 2008 serial bomb blasts here, was shifted from Soukhya Hospital to the Manipal Hospital at around 2 AM after he complained of tiredness and giddiness, Medical Advisory Board of Manipal Hospitals (MHS)

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: On the eve of Wednesday's vote in which a Left rout had seemed imminent, the CPM-led coalition has begun to look less vulnerable with pundits predicting a photo finish. The Congress-led United Democratic Front , however, remains confident of gaining an absolute majority as the Left Democratic Front insists its return is inevitable. What helped the Left in the final push was the V S Achuthanandan factor and a Hindu consolidation in its favour , say...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala-based PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani finds himself in political isolation with mainstream parties in the state keeping away from him, despite past dalliance with him, after he was chargesheeted in the Bangalore blasts case. Madani's space in the mainstream has shrunck considerably after the last Lok Sabha polls when his party had truck with the ruling LDF which however failed to yield any political dividends at the...

KOLLAM (KERALA): Ending the eight-day long suspense, PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani was today arrested amid high drama from his camp here by the Karnataka Police in connection with the 2008 Bangalore blast case. Hours before the deadline set by the Bangalore court was to expire, a Karnataka Police team executed the non-bailable arrest warrant as Madani emerged from his orphanage-cum-madrassa complex at Anwarassery here. Bangalore Deputy Commissioner of Police...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At Anwarssery in Kerala's Kollam district, People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani and his wife Sufiya Madani are cooped up in a virtual fortress fashioned by scores of PDP supporters, who fear that the arrest of Sufiya is imminent, following her listing as an accused in the four-year-old case of burning a Tamil Nadu bus at Kalamassery. To lend moral support to the couple, the PDP state leadership is holding a relay satyagraha, and Madani...

KOCHI: Debate on development is yet to take the centre-stage in poll campaigning in Kerala with CPM's ties with PDP and SNC-Lavlin corruption case grabbing the attention. PDP chief Abdul Nasser Madani's alleged terror links has been so intensely taken up by the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) that a magistrate court in Alwaye has ordered a probe into the alleged role played by Madani's wife, Sufiya Madani, in the case relating to the burning of a Tamil...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At Anwarssery in Kerala's Kollam district, People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani and his wife Sufiya Madani are cooped up in a virtual fortress fashioned by scores of PDP supporters, who fear that the arrest of Sufiya is imminent, following her listing as an accused in the four-year-old case of burning a Tamil Nadu bus at Kalamassery. To lend moral support to the couple, the PDP state leadership is holding a relay satyagraha, and...

NEW DELHI: In a major embarrassment for the CPM, the Kerala police on Friday named Islamist leader Abdul Nasser Madani's wife Sufiya Madani as an accused in the Kalamassery bus burning incident, allegedly choreographed by arrested south India commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Thadiyantavide Nazeer. The chargesheet said Sufiya Madani was part of the conspiracy behind burning of the Tamil Nadu state bus at Kalamassery, off Kochi on September 9, 2005. According to the...

KOCHI: Debate on development is yet to take the centre-stage in poll campaigning in Kerala with CPM's ties with PDP and SNC-Lavlin corruption case grabbing the attention. PDP chief Abdul Nasser Madani's alleged terror links has been so intensely taken up by the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) that a magistrate court in Alwaye has ordered a probe into the alleged role played by Madani's wife, Sufiya Madani, in the case relating to the burning of a...